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With so many places to explore online and lots of different activities to pursue, anyone with a website or in the process of building one must be able to quickly grab the attention of the consumer. If you would like to learn how to have a website that is designed to drive visitors to you and keep them when they get there, continue on for some excellent tips.

Colors

The first step in the process of developing a successful site is to have a full understanding of who your audience is. If your site is geared towards men you will want to keep the site more manly and use things that men are interested in. Likewise, if your site is for women then you choose colors that are appropriate for them. Same with children. Knowing your audience is the first step that lets you focus on and target your key audience.

Consumers

Kiss. That stands for keep it simple stupid. Ever heard that before? Well it applies to website design. You don’t want a site that is confusing to navigate and hard to follow what it is you want them to do. Keep things simple and guide your consumers to places that you would like them to go. Remember, a frustrated consumer is an unhappy customer who will either complain to you or quickly leave your site. That results in lost business for you. >

Entertain your guests. Yes, your website visitors are your guess and you should treat them as such. Give them interactive features such as videos that explain your product in a fun and interesting way. Most people have fast internet connections nowadays and are used to seeing video. This is an excellent way to entertain your potential customers while trying to sell them something. Most importantly, it keep them on your site.

Exit Sign

Most people do not like to hear music when they go to a website or see lots of flashing graphics in their face. That turns people off and they quickly look for the exit sign. If you must have music then have a way for the consumer to turn it off. Likewise, if you must have graphics then do not have it on the home page. Make sure home page as clean as possible and easy to read.

Guess

A menu up top that is simple and clean will be very attractive to a website visitor. Nothing is more frustrating to a consumer than trying to locate different areas of a website only to continuously land in the wrong spot. this quickly leads to the consumer finding another site that can quickly take care of their needs. This is how a lot of websites lose their customers. A messy web design that confuses people leads to loss of business.

Interactive Features

Designing a website that makes visitors want to come and stay for awhile is quite a challenge. But it doesn’t have to be that difficult if you have great tips and tricks to help keep those visitors coming back for more. Refer to these tips whenever you build a new site or trying to better the site you already have.

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How Does The Market Solve The Consumer Goods-capital Goods Production Dilemma? How does the market solve the consumer goods-capital goods production dilemma? How does the command system attempt to solve it?

Consumer goods-Capital goods dilemma is solved by increasing the production of Capital Goods in order to meet the increased demand for the consumer goods. In a free market economy this is done by market forces of demand and supply. Government does not interfere directly.

A Command system is one where the government, rather than the free market, determines what goods should be produced, how much should be produced and the price at which the goods will be offered for sale. The command economy is a key feature of most communist society.
A command system is also known as a planned economy and are unable to efficiently allocate goods because of the knowledge problem – the central planner’s inability to discern how much of a good should be produced. Shortages and surpluses are a common consequence of command economies. A free-market price system, on the other hand, signals to producers what they should be creating and in what quantities, resulting in a much more efficient allocation of goods.

You can embed a simple map, a set of driving directions, a local search, or maps created by other users. Here’s how:

1. Ensure that the map you’d like to embed appears in the current map display.
2. Click Link to this page in the top-right corner of the map.
3. In the box that pops up, copy the HTML under ‘Paste HTML to embed in website,’ and paste it into the source code of your website or blog.

If you’d like to adjust the size of the map before you embed it, just click Customize and preview embedded map, select your preferred size, and take a look at the preview map. Once you’re happy with what you see, copy the HTML that appears in the box at the bottom of the window.

Keep in mind that you won’t be able to embed Traffic maps, Mapplets, and some other Maps features.

You can design website by just creating a MS.Word file with same name of your buttons on webpage and they’ll contain all those texts.Besides, you can inser pics in .doc file too if you were aware.(remember first page should be INDEX)

when your website is done take it out of your TEMP folder in Document settings>>User>>TEMP

or you can put your website directly by in built FTP on *rapid website*

Getting traffic is a combination of a lot of things. The key to success is to create great content that visitors want to use, search engines will love and other websites will naturally link to. Of course, it’s easier said than done.

Here are some shoestring marketing ideas that can help you get the visitors you need at the least cost possible:

1. Create the best content you can with the best products you can possibly offer. Your content is your best advertisement – if visitors love your content, then they will go back and spread the word to others.

2. Make it easy for users to recommend your site. Viral marketing is very important — and easy to tap on the Web. But give your users the tools. Get a Recommend this Site script from websites such as cgiscripts.com and similar directories of scripts. Some even go as far as giving incentives to those who recommend the site to their friends. If only 10 people go to your site, but these 10 people invite 10 more – that’s additional traffic that you get for FREE!

3. Rank well in the search engines (organic search results, not the pay per click). SEs can be a big source of traffic. The key is to create the best content in your niche. If you have good content, other websites will gladly link to you and offer your site as a resource to their audience. Check the on-page factors and be sure to get linked from authority sites in your topic area.

If you are going to read only one piece on search engine optimization, I suggest you read Brett Tabke of WebmasterWorld.com’s “Successful Site in 12 Months with Google Alone: 26 steps to 15k a day.” http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum3/2010.htm

4. Send out press releases. While outfits charge as much as $650 per release, there are free press release submission places on the Web. Press releases allow you to (a) attract media attention; (b) get more back links to your website without sending each website an email request; and (c) get more visibility especially if your press release gets in Google News or Yahoo News.

5. Submit articles. Write articles and submit them to websites accepting author submissions. You get exposure for your business; establishes you as an authority in your field, and allows you to get backlinks for your website. If 50 websites publish your article and it contains a link back to your website, then you easily get 50 links from a single article. The more links you have, the greater your chances for increasing your search engine rankings.

Congress passed the Consumer Product Safety Act in 1972 to “assist consumers in evaluating the comparative safety of consumer products; to develop uniform safety standards for consumer products and to minimize conflicting state and local regulations; and to promote research and investigation into the causes and prevention of product related death, illnesses, and injuries.” The act also established the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) to “protect the public against unreasonable risks associated with consumer products.” The CPSC has authority to set mandatory standards, ban products, order recalls of unsafe products, and institute labeling requirements.

The CPSC is an independent regulatory agency charged with protecting consumers from unreasonable risk of injury associated with consumer products. The most serious risks include amputation, electrocution, burns, asphyxiation, and cancer. Examples of recent product liability lawsuits in which defendant companies lost include breast implants that leaked silicone gel and football helmets that did not have enough padding. The commission has jurisdiction over about 15,000 types of consumer products, such as automatic coffee makers, toys, furniture, clothing, and lawn mowers. The CPSC works to reduce the risk of injury and death from consumer products by:

Developing voluntary standards with industry
Issuing and enforcing mandatory standards and banning consumer products if no feasible standard would adequately protect the public
Obtaining the recall of products or arranging for their repair
Conducting research on potential product hazards
Informing and educating consumers through the media, state and local governments, and private organizations, and by responding to consumer inquiries. (CPSC, 1999).
The CPSC has three key program areas:

The Office of Hazard Identification and Reduction, which collects and analyzes consumer injury and death data to determine trends in consumer product hazards.
The Office of Compliance and Enforcement, which supervises compliance and administrative activities related to the act. This office also reviews proposed standards and rules with respect to their enforceability.
The Office of Information and Public Affairs, which is responsible for the development, implementation, and evaluation of a comprehensive national information and public affairs program designed to promote product safety. (Fise, 1998).
In recent years, the CPSC has been involved in actions to protect children. In 1987, for example, the commission began to examine toys that pose choking hazards. This led Congress to pass the Child Safety Protection Act of 1994. A sample of child safety issues investigated by the commission includes bicycle helmets, public play grounds, upholstered furniture, walkers, drawstrings on children’s clothing, baseball protective equipment, and toys. More than 160 deaths from toys were reported between 1990 and 1997, and at least seventy-two different toys that posed a small-parts hazard were recalled between October 1996 and September 1997 by the CPSC.(Public Interest Research Group [PIRG], 2000). PIRG reports that in 1998 fewer toys posing choking hazards appeared on shelves.

Consumers have benefited in the areas where the CPSC has taken action. The commission is constantly challenged to keep abreast of new products and potential hazards that may be associated with them. The commission is usually able to react, however, only after a consumer has been injured or died. The CPSC has changed the way many products are designed and manufactured. Continuing education by consumer groups, the media, and the CPSE has helped increase public awareness of possible consumer safety hazards. The CPSC is an important consumer protection agency, protecting consumers by assuring that products they use every day are safe.

Firstly, your site has good on-page optimization i.e meta tags should be better stuffed with Title, description and keywords.

Now you have asked about keywords, then you can finalize your own keywords according to your site requirement. Make a list of those keywords and then check there search volume in keyword tool which are free available on the web.

After selecting those keywords, you can do Search engine optimization of those keywords for your site.
1— Daily update your site with new content and also make a blog of your site which should be also updated with unique content.
2— Link exchange with the sites of same category having PR should be equal or more than your site. This will increase PR of your site.
3— Do social bookmarking, Article submission, forum posting, Classified ad and press release of your site. Article submission will also help to increase PR of your site

Consumer science is the study of providing for the well-being of individuals and households in the context of how they are influenced by marketplace institutions and communities. Consumer science draws from fields such as economics, sociology, psychology, law, and business. Consumer behavior, household finance, and consumer protection are major areas of consumer science.

Consumer science is a primary science in creating new products. You have to make sure that it is safe and that it is wanted in the market.

I would really appreciate it if you could let me know what you think of my new website design. Me and my wife have spent a lot of time and money trying to make it look professional. The website is to sell mobile phones.

I will answer your question based on categories that I’m going to list below.

But first thing first I just only want to make it clear that this is just only my personal opinion as a critics viewing website.

I will tell things that I saw negative rather than saying what is already positive on the design.

1. Color
2. General Layout
3. User Accessibility

COLOR: I cannot distinguished what is the based color of the website since it is macro color or technicolor. Most website have a base theme color, even it has color combination it should still have the ability to show the visitor the base color

like for example Yahoo: the base color is purple but it still have other color such as blue and red. but by 1 looking at yahoo website purple color is what stick on my mind “oh its yahoo”

It is still good to have a base color for any website so that visitor can easily remember your site.

The macro color is perhaps good in solid prints such as flyers and brochure that is give by sales man outside a grocery or mall. but in website? I don’t thing its good

2. General Layout: hhhmm I get confused on the image slider because Its hard to distinguish it coz it blends on the 2 images adds below. maybe the macro color also affect.

3. User-Accessibility – As a visitor sometimes I am lazy to scroll my my page over and over again just to see all web content. Most visitor want to instantly see the actual content of the website and if there some other minor detail it should separate in the new page.

Like in a movie commercial it just like a teaser. or in a news paper it just like a headline.

Another things is perhaps it should be great if the content of the page is auto-fit 100% to the browser width. Most latest html/css design use the maximum width.

I would recommend Google Analytics to track website traffic and visitors. You can simply start by setting up an account at GA and you can track your traffic, visitors, conversions and all for your website.

A website with interactive design attracts more visitors than any static website. It draws visitors, holds their interest and encourages them to take some action. If you use interactive design, your website can benefit in several ways such as:

? -An interactive website provides a platform to the visitor to interact freely, share views, give opinion etc. This way, your customers get the opportunity to interact with you, the site owner as well as others who visit it and they feel encouraged to return to the website again.

?- Second, you can conduct a research or a survey on your website. You can ask your customers what they liked about your product and what were the shortcomings? These surveys help you in figuring out where you are falling short of customer's expectations and what steps you should take to overcome those shortcomings.

How To Get Website Design Orders/customers? I am running a website designing and Web based software Development Company , Now i am extremely struggling to get customers. Please advise me how i can get more orders and target customers; this is a small company with strong technical team and good profile. http://www.wizardi.co.uk

After a cursory review of your opening webpage, it appears that there is insufficient, inadequate SEO metatags to draw web traffic to your wonderful website. So, who’s in charge of White Hat SEO at your site? Merely placing the entry “Wizardi” in the

metatag assumes that “Wizardi” is a major recognizable “brand.” And if that is not the case, then provide more description keywords which best describe your services followed by a geographic target, i.e., your business location in what city, state, country.

Here’s a helpful tutorial to assist in designing effective metatags which will draw clients to your website. Even though this tutorial was initially directed to the U.S. marketplace, it is very much relevant to other similar businesses in overseas markets:

The most effective way to advertise on the Internet is
to first set up a website and publish its domain name
on major search directories such as Google.com,
Yahoo.com [at http://www.google.com/addurl/?…… and
MSN.com since 85% of Internet shoppers rely on these
search directories to provide them with goods and
services. In a sense, these search directories are a
very large Internet Yellow Pages.

Nevertheless, should your website or opening webpage
fail to contain “generic” keywords, then anyone using
such “generic” queries will not be able to discover
your website. Your domain name [URL] of your website,
in a sense, will be invisible, undiscoverable.

You may want to consider some simple algorithms which,
when observed and committed in designing of a website
with placement of various critical metatags that can
surely achieve a high search engine presence and
increase Internet traffic to your website. These
metatag strategies work well with published webpages
at Google and Yahoo.

Design: Should you create an extensive Flash-based
website, make sure to fill-in the property entries
such as the Title, Description and Keywords. Failing
to do so, leaves no hard HTML or ALT resource that can
be readily indexed by search robots. Also consider the
Internet audience and their incoming setup. For
example, if they are on analog/dialup, Flash webpages
take too long to load up and therefore analog users
will likely lose interest and discontinue entering the
Flash site. On the other hand, anyone on hi-speed DSL
lines, will welcome Flash pages which load quickly. So
before designing a pure Flash websitge, ask the simple
question, “Who’s my end user – is he on dialup or
DSL?” And if you had to choose between these two users
for maximum marketability, then select analog users
since 80% of most resident users are still analog
Internet subscribers and pure HTML designed webpages
is best for them.

A non-Flash-based website which relies on hard text,
is far easier to be indexed by search robots. Limit
the use of stylized text saved as .gifs since as a
graphic, they are not indexable by search robots.

Avoid use of frames since any number of search robots
are unable to properly classify textual material.

Placement of Metatags:

A ranking or search order does take place with Google
and Yahoo and it begins with the “Title” metag which
should consist of no more than 65 characters separated
by commas. The “Title” should describe in generic
terms, the goods and services, followed by a location
from which the resource is located, i.e., city, state.
The placement of a domain name which is not generic
within the “Title” is not appropriate, unless your
domain name is a major recognizable brand name.

The second metatag is the “Description” which is
usually 25-30 words to form a complete sentence which
best describes one’s goods and services.

And the very last category – “Keywords” are also
somewhat limited to 15-16 words which can be plural
and compound in nature. Again, avoid multiple entries
which could be mistaken as “spamdexed entries” which
is defined as the loading, and submission of
repetitive words into a particular metatag category.
“Spamdexing” when discovered on a webpage and reported
to Google’s spamreport.com can result in the
elimination of your website from their search
directory.

What Type Of Website Would Attract More Visitors.? Hello. I am studying website development and would like to create a website as a hobby but also hope to make some money from the traffic to fund the hosting etc.

Do you think a website about fitness/health/bodybuilding or a website about movies/reviews/television would generate more traffic? I am very interested in both of these subjects so it is a hard choice.

Pornographic websites control 1/3 of the internet community.
But you can make a website about movie reviews,television reviews,ect ect,
and if you want more traffic you can have a 18+ section for reviews about adult movies.

While it is important to generate large volumes of traffic to a website, it is important that people visiting your website are likely to buy products and the services you offer.

1. Know your target customer and ensure that all your advertising campaigns are aimed at these customers. This means you must use all the necessary keywords that define your potential customers in all of your advertising campaigns. If you are writing articles as a way to promote your website, your articles should contain the keywords of your niche.

2. List your website with search engines and directories in categories that fit your niche. If your website is about selling products or services that relate to making money online, for example, get your website listed in this category on relevant websites. This means that people who are looking for that specific information relating to your website will easily find you.

3. Advertise your website in relevant forums and online groups. The more you know about your potential customers, the better you know where to find them. This means you can go to relevant forums or online groups where your customers hangout and you can advertise your web site there through the URL of your website in your signature to messages in these forums. People in forums that relate to your target niche customers have a high potential to buy from your website.

4. Write articles that are rich with your keywords. Articles are collected and published by many websites, electronic journals and directories. So quickly with thousands of back links pointing to your website. It is therefore important that all your articles have several of your keywords so that when people type these keywords in search engines while looking for information, and your website appears prominently on these engines search. This leads targeted traffic to your website.

5. Use your own e-zine and related e-zines to advertise your website. By publishing your own e-zine, you already have many prospects who are interested in what you have to offer. Make sure your e-zine has new content and supplies a way a free report or ebook to subscribers. Make sure the web site URL is added in all publications of the e-zine. Identify other e-zines, with an audience that matches your niche target market and advertise your website in these e-zines.

6. Research and find other websites where your target customers visit and inquire about advertising your website on these websites.

7. Create a FaceBook fan page highlighting it with a link to your website

8. Put your web site link in your signature on all of your email.

9. Solo Ads, UsFreeAds.com & Craigslist

10. SEO. (Search Engine Optimization)

Have all your keywords on your website. It is important that you have all the relevant keywords and phrases that relate to your topic on your web pages and any articles you post on your website. This will increase your website ranking on search engines which means that your website will rank high when people type keywords relating to your topic on search engines. You will therefore get many visitors coming to your site via the search engines. When people visit your website, the high quality content you have will make people spend more time on your site and ultimately buy some of the products or services you offer on your site.

Please Help Us Promote Our Website Like Giving Advices, Tips, Etc. Any Kind Of Help Is Welcomed.? Hi! We have launched a website, http://www.soltrago.com (a website where you can watch free TV channels, listen to radio and view webcams), and we get very few visitors (50 per day) to our website. We have tried all the good techniques to get traffic, like article writing, search engine submission, directory submission, blog commenting, etc, and we still get very few visitors to our traffic.
Can someone help us to get more visitors to our website? Like giving us some advices, some tips, etc. Any kind of help would be useful. Thank you.

Getting traffic is a combination of a lot of things. The key to success is to create great content that visitors want to use, search engines will love and other websites will naturally link to. Of course, it’s easier said than done.

Here are some shoestring marketing ideas that can help you get the visitors you need at the least cost possible:

1. Create the best content you can with the best products you can possibly offer. Your content is your best advertisement – if visitors love your content, then they will go back and spread the word to others.

2. Make it easy for users to recommend your site. Viral marketing is very important — and easy to tap on the Web. But give your users the tools. Get a Recommend this Site script from websites such as cgiscripts.com and similar directories of scripts. Some even go as far as giving incentives to those who recommend the site to their friends. If only 10 people go to your site, but these 10 people invite 10 more – that’s additional traffic that you get for FREE!

3. Rank well in the search engines (organic search results, not the pay per click). SEs can be a big source of traffic. The key is to create the best content in your niche. If you have good content, other websites will gladly link to you and offer your site as a resource to their audience. Check the on-page factors and be sure to get linked from authority sites in your topic area.

4. Send out press releases. While outfits charge as much as $650 per release, there are free press release submission places on the Web. Press releases allow you to (a) attract media attention; (b) get more back links to your website without sending each website an email request; and (c) get more visibility especially if your press release gets in Google News or Yahoo News.

5. Submit articles. Write articles and submit them to websites accepting author submissions. You get exposure for your business; establishes you as an authority in your field, and allows you to get backlinks for your website. If 50 websites publish your article and it contains a link back to your website, then you easily get 50 links from a single article. The more links you have, the greater your chances for increasing your search engine rankings.

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